GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 15:06:00 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 11:08 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:58 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:59 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> > > /me imagines an angry author shouting at C violation by Fedora because
> > > we mark something GPL+ instead of GPLv2+ or GPLv3+
> > 
> > Agreed. Asking upstream is the best way to resolve that case.
> > 
> > However, we're not liable for any mistaken tagging of the License in our
> > package, because the License: tag isn't legally binding.
> 
> Yeah in fact I said shouting not taking legal action :-)

Shouting I'm not worried about. People shout at me all day long. ;)

~spot




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